PROJECT SIGN OFF: the anti-seismic structure

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           After giving some it thought, I have decided that my project will be a hypothesis of a new way of protecting people in old homes such as Riads against earthquakes. Here is a further representation of what this prototype will look like.

  comparison between the conventional structure and the seismic isolation structure.

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